Tuesday, December 12, 2006

France

So, there is always this magic gap between sensation and words that we use to describe certain experiences. I am thinking on wine right now, and the many regions in France where wine is produced. A quote from Daniel Dennett on speech: "Fully fledged and executed communicative intentions - Meanings - could emerge from quasi-evolutionary process of speech act design that involves collaboration, partly serial, partly in parallel, of various subsystems none of which is capable on its own of performing - or ordering - a speech act."

The semantics of wine might be related to the semantics processes that assign words to taste.